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Re: New GB18030 gconv module for glibc (from ThizLinux Laboratory)
- From: "Markus Scherer" <markus dot scherer at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: drepper at redhat dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
- Cc: Anthony Fok <anthony at thizlinux dot com>, drepper at myware dot mynet, fai at thizlinux dot com, Bruno Haible <haible at ilog dot fr>, kevin at thizlinux dot com, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com, sunnygu at thizgroup dot com, suzhe at gnuchina dot org, Yu Shao <yshao at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 14:18:11 -0800
- Subject: Re: New GB18030 gconv module for glibc (from ThizLinux Laboratory)
Well, I am sorry to tick anyone off, but I thought that being copied on an
email discussion that 1) refers to me personally and 2) discusses things
that I believe I can help with some insights, it was not outrageous to
respond. I am sorry if my response was out of context or offensive.
Technical discussions that I am used to are normally not this touchy.
On the technical merits of your (Ulrich's) reply, I was referring in my
email to mappings to _unassigned_ Unicode code points; they are of course
still "Unicode positions" since they are part of the designated code point
space in Unicode.
Actually, I am confused. Are we talking about conversions to Unicode and
ISO 10646, which is governed by two standards committees, or are we in
fact talking about conversions to an "internal private charset"?
markus
Markus Scherer IBM GCoC-Unicode/ICU San José, CA
markus.scherer@us.ibm.com (also for SameTime)
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Sent by: drepper@myware.mynet
2002-01-17 13:41
Please respond to drepper
To: Markus Scherer/Cupertino/IBM@IBMUS
cc: Anthony Fok <anthony@thizlinux.com>, fai@thizlinux.com, Bruno Haible
<haible@ilog.fr>, kevin@thizlinux.com, libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com,
sunnygu@thizgroup.com, suzhe@gnuchina.org, Yu Shao <yshao@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: New GB18030 gconv module for glibc (from ThizLinux Laboratory)
"Markus Scherer" <markus.scherer@us.ibm.com> writes:
> I agree with what Anthony said about mapping code points: Even if they
do
> not have assigned characters,
It is completely irrelevant what you think. The converters convert
from the external charset to the internal private charset. The latter
is defined in a way which disallows any non-Unicode position. What
you do with your own code I don't care; but stay out of discussions
like this when they are related to glibc.
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